Choose the correct option of the figures of speech used in the given sentence:
Moon faced, wane and pale, she was telling a thousand stories.
A. Metaphor
B. Personification
C. Oxymoron
D. Hyperbole
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
The correct answer is Option (4) → A and D only
A. Metaphor — Correct. A metaphor describes one thing as another without "like" or "as". "Moon faced" gives her face the roundness and pallor of the moon without a comparing word.
Example: Time is a thief.
B. Personification — Incorrect. Personification gives human qualities or actions to something that is not human. Here the subject is a woman, so nothing non-human is made human.
Example: The wind whispered through the trees.
C. Oxymoron — Incorrect. An oxymoron puts two words of opposite meaning side by side. The sentence has no such pair.
Example: There was a deafening silence in the hall.
D. Hyperbole — Correct. Hyperbole is deliberate exaggeration for effect. "A thousand stories" exaggerates how much her face expressed.
Example: I have told you a million times.
Contrast: a metaphor rests on likeness ("moon faced") and hyperbole on exaggeration ("a thousand stories"); personification needs a non-human thing given human qualities, and an oxymoron needs two opposite words side by side.